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February 07, 2023
The acreage includes the Harald gas fields, for which the company is already assessing CO2 storage opportunities within the framework of the Bifrost project, as well as a saline aquifer that could increase CO2 storage volumes and bring a competitive solution to the market.
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February 03, 2023
The agreements will secure the majority of the power needed for the existing manufacturing activities and also the additional power required for planned investments into electrification and hydrogen production as part of INEOS Inovyn Norway's plans to decarbonize its assets in Norway.
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February 01, 2023
With the start-up of production from the 10th well, the Neptune-operated Cygnus gas facility is now capable of producing enough natural gas to meet the needs of approximately 2 million UK households, underlining the important contribution of Cygnus to UK energy security.
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February 01, 2023
Under current projections, the project has the capacity to store up to one gigaton of CO2 - which equates to roughly three years’ worth of UK CO2 current emissions.
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February 01, 2023
The Barents Blue concept is to make ammonia from natural gas from the Barents Sea, capture the CO2 and store it under the seabed. The Polaris CO2 storage under the Barents Sea was selected as the CO2 storage solution for the Barents Blue project.
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January 30, 2023
Equinor awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract the low-carbon hydrogen production plan H2H Saltend to Linde Engineering. Equinor also awarded an operation and maintenance service contract to Linde company BOC.  
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January 26, 2023
BiSN signed a three-year contract, which features two one-year extensions, to provide this operator with Wel-lok™ alloy plugs for its ongoing offshore UK P&A campaign in the North Sea.
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January 24, 2023
This is an important step for Germany's energy sector, as the Adorf field provides enough gas to heat “more than 100,000 households,” according to Neptune Energy’s Managing Director Andreas Scheck.
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January 24, 2023
PGS will acquire 4D surveys over the Gullfaks and Gudrun fields over the summer of 2023.
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January 24, 2023
Produced in partnership with Scotland-based documentary maker Thomas Hogben, ‘The Time is Now: the UK’s changing energy industry’ intimately captures the hopes, fears and ambitions of some of the people working on the frontline of the UK’s energy transition.
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January 23, 2023
The Press Association has reported a speech by Rachel Reeves at the Fabian Society Conference, saying that a Labour government would extend the windfall tax on UK North Sea operators from 75% to 78%. In response, OEUK said the impact of such changes would be disastrous for the UK’s energy supplies and future energy security.
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January 23, 2023
GMS has signed a contract to provide construction and developmental support for a major offshore wind farm in France. The contract is due to complete in Q1 2023.
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January 20, 2023
TotalEnergies awarded the first contract- the LAPA Southwest (LAPA SW) development project- to Saipem and partner Aker Solutions do Brasil. Equinor also awarded a contract to Saipem for the Irpa pipeline project.
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January 19, 2023
OEUK’s external relations director, said, “Keir Starmer’s suggestion that there should be no further investment in North Sea oil and gas will be deeply upsetting to the many workers and communities dedicated to providing the UK with energy. It will also further damage investor confidence."
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January 18, 2023
The Obelix Upflank discovery was made some 23 km south of the Irpa gas discovery, and 350 km west of Sandnessjøen. This is the first discovery made on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) in 2023, and the first wells in the Equinor-operated production license awarded in the APA award in 2020.
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January 17, 2023
Through this collaboration, the parties wish to combine Plenitude’s technical and financial capabilities and experience in the Italian energy market, with Simply Blue Group’s track record in developing global floating wind projects.
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January 17, 2023
The process, which will provide a significant boost to the UK’s energy security, opened on Oct. 7 and offered acreage across the North Sea. It included four priority areas, which have known hydrocarbons, in which there was very keen interest and could see production in as little as 18 months.
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January 16, 2023
The North Sea Transition Authority’s announcement that it has received 115 bids for new oil and gas exploration licenses shows how UK offshore energy operators are doing their best to support the nation’s energy future, Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) said on Jan. 16.
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January 16, 2023
Wintershall Dea is a partner in the Greensand project, which will see the entire CSS value chain realized across borders to an offshore storage site for the first time on the European continent.
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January 13, 2023
This project, to which TotalEnergies is contributing a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) and supplying LNG, will make them one of Germany’s main LNG suppliers.
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January 13, 2023
The parties will join their efforts to develop a green hydrogen supply chain, focusing on production in Abu Dhabi and export to the Netherlands through the port of Amsterdam.
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